TRANSITION; PROJECT UPDATE LOCATIONS

With the transitions project there were two things that i wanted to organise and be prepared for straight away, this was
- Provisional Filming Dates
- Location Access

Based upon previous projects, locations have probably been the biggest struggle, you want to find a location that will work perfectly for the shoot, but gaining access can be a struggle. With this project we do need quite a few different locations, the hardest one in my eyes being one with a river. For this, I immediately began looking on the Kent Film Office website, I found a few different locations such as 'Haysden Country Park' in Tonbridge. Also, by the suggestion of Sonia to have a look into Leeds Castle, I managed to get into contact with one of the managers from there. After emailing them, they got back to me and confined we would be able to use their location that runs into a river! Our next step with this is to go down and do a recce to confirm the location is 100% fit for the production.

In addition to this, I am also still in ongoing contact with one of the people in charge at the original location found, 'Haysden Country Park', they have asked for copies of the script etc to know what the production is about and I am currently awaiting a decision back from them. Though we have a location almost confirmed with Leeds Castle, I have learnt from previous productions that locations can fall through, and it is imperative to have a back up plan! This is why I will be continuing to liaise with the relevant people about Haysden as this really help up - to have a second option.



Furthermore, the 2nd location we need is actually a car park; so that we can show our characters arrive at the river location, once we go and do a recce of Leeds Castle we can find out if this is something we could film there as well. However if not I have access to a farm location; it has a tarmaced car park as well as acres of land so will still work perfectly to match the Leeds Castle river location. Finally - we need a location to act as the 'Choc-litshop'. Ideally we want one to look as authentic as possible and currently are looking into using the diner that is in the Maidstone Studios, it would work really well and defiantly fit what we are trying to go for, however currently we need to find out if access can be gained and this is something that is ongoing.